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Tips for Grads: Managing Projects and People
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| One of the greatest challenges for graduate students is maintaining productivity, especially during the summer months when there are fewer classes and more free time. For graduate students embarking on large writing projects, Get a Life, PhD blogger and professor of Sociology at UC-Merced Tanya Maria Golash-Boza advises scholars to write daily and hold themselves accountable, which works to ensure you are moving forward with your writing projects and keeps you engaged with your writing. Here are some creative suggestions from her list of ten ways to write every day:
- Restructure a paper that you have been working on
- Pull together pieces of older documents you have written into a new paper
- Outline or mind-map a new project
- Summarize or take notes on something you have read recently that might be relevant to present or future research projects
Committing to daily writing for a month and holding yourself accountable to others are additional ways to increase writing productivity each day.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW-Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the nine facets of professional development, complete a self-assessment, and get a customized report and recommendations.
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Upcoming Professional Development Events
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| Creating an IDP encourages you to think about what you need to do next — and over the next few years — so that you achieve your goals. We will discuss how to define achievable goals, identify resources, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining your plans. Participants will begin to create a personalized plan that takes into account career interests and addresses the development of knowledge and skills. This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and Delta Program. Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| A Writer's Retreat
Wednesday, July 26 | 4:30 - 7:30 pm
6191 Helen C. White Hall | Communication
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Illustrator 1
Tuesday, July 11 | 2:0-0 - 4:00 pm
B1144A Deluca Biochemistry Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections
Excel 1
Wednesday, July 12 | 10:00 - 12:00 pm
B1144A Deluca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Citation Manager: Zotero
Wednesday, July 12 | 12:00 pm
2121 Health Sciences Learning Center | Managing Projects and People
Excel 2: Functions
Monday, July 17 | 12:00 - 2:00 pm
B1144A Deluca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People InDesign
Tuesday, July 18 | 12:00 - 2:00 pm
B1144A Deluca Biochemistry Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections
Premiere Pro
Wednesday, July 19 | 4:00 - 6:00 pm
B1144A Deluca Biochemistry Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections Photoshop 2: Effects and Filters
Thursday, July 20 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
B1144A Deluca Biochemistry Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections
Illustrator 2
Monday, July 24 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
B1144A Deluca Biochemistry Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections
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Graduate Assistant Employment Policy Workgroup
A campus workgroup has been charged to transition policy from the former Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) contract to a Graduate Assistant Policies and Procedures resource. Its primary purpose is to develop policies and procedures that will guide graduate assistants and supervisors on employment-related matters. The project will memorialize language found in the previous TAA contract, expanding policy to pertain to all graduate assistant appointments: Teaching Assistant, Project Assistant, Research Assistant, Lecture (SA), and Project Assistant reader. A website has been developed to inform campus about the project, provide updates, and answer frequently asked questions.
Writing Across the Curriculum Training
To help teaching assistants and faculty plan and teach Communication-B courses, the university will be offering a sequence of three training workshops this coming fall semester as part of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. This training will focus on issues common to instructors such as understanding goals and requirements of Communication-B courses, developing strategies for teaching written and oral communication and information literacy, responding to student writing and speaking, and making the most of individual student conferences. The first two parts of the workshop are scheduled for Welcome Week on Monday August 28 and Tuesday August 29 from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm in 6191 Helen C. While Hall. The final part will take place during third or fourth week of classes during the fall semester. Registration is required and can be found here.
Registration open for the Graduate School Degree Dash Get your semester off to a fast start! Join fellow graduate students, faculty and staff for the 2nd Annual Degree Dash hosted by the Graduate School at UW-Madison. Set your goal for 5.7 miles for the Doctoral Derby (no, you don’t have to be in a Ph.D. program to participate), or for 1.75 miles for the Master's Mile (for those who need to “graduate” early). Race distances are based on average time-to-degree. You will meet fellow students, faculty and staff, tour campus, come away with a t-shirt or water bottle, and gather information that will help you to start your semester off quickly. And the best part is, whether you come in first or last place, you’ll get a diploma at the finish line. All are encouraged to participate in this event – new and current graduate students, faculty, staff and family members. Teams are encouraged and eligible to win prizes.
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Please note: Some graduate students may be ineligible to hold graduate assistantship appointments. Be sure to check with your graduate program coordinator about your eligibility before applying.
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The Grist Fellowship Program is looking for early-career journalists with a variety of skills, from traditional reporting to multimedia whizbangery. The Grist Fellowship Program is an independent nonprofit media organization that shapes the country’s environmental conversations using humor and straight talk to connect big issues like climate change to real people and how they live, work, and play. Two fellowships are available. For more information on each of them, visit their website. The Center for Research on Gender and Women is very pleased to solicit applications for a new competitive award: a $5000.00 scholarship to support graduate-level research and/or advocacy pertaining to reproductive health, rights, and justice. The intended purposes of this award are twofold: first, to support the scholarly and career trajectories of future professionals in this topic area; second, to advance the reproductive health, rights, and justice of residents of Wisconsin and beyond. Any currently-enrolled graduate or professional student from UW-Madison is eligible. Current graduate students in Gender and Women’s Studies will receive preference in the selection process.
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning. All doctoral level graduate students who are planning a career in higher education are eligible, regardless of academic department. Graduate students in fields where the Master's degree is the terminal degree, such as the MFA in art, are also eligible. (Nominees must hold student status in January 2018.) One of the top-ranked universities in the country, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, located in downtown Chicago, combines innovative technology and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment. Looking to recruit self-motivated Postdoctoral Scientist/Fellows in the Department of Pathology and Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute for studies of immune cells during cardiovascular disease (including in the heart after myocardial ischemia or after heart transplant).
Virginia Tech is now accepting applications for their annual Future Faculty Development Program, an intensive two-day program for doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars traditionally underrepresented in their fields who are interested in entering academic careers in the next year. In January 2018, they plan to bring a cohort of approximately 15 to the Virginia Tech main campus in Blacksburg, VA for this all-expense paid workshop that includes interaction with host departments, workshops such as negotiating job offers and adjusting to life as a new faculty member, and plenty of opportunities to network with faculty in research areas of interest to the participants. For more information, visit their website.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Rheumatology
Application Due soon (no exact date)
The Webb laboratory at the University of Oklahoma is funding a number of projects and is looking for highly motivated individuals interested in a post-doctoral fellowship. The Webb laboratory focuses on ascertaining new roles of the DNA-binding protein, ARID3a, in a number of biologically relevant systems. A major goal of the laboratory is to understand how ARID3a functions in lupus and healthy control blood cells. Ideal candidates will have previous experience in one or more of the following fields: cell culture, immunology, flow cytometry, and molecular biology techniques. Interested candidates should contact Dr. Carol Webb at carol-webb@ouhsc.edu.
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